TIA lives!!!!

In the midst of this "web exclusive commentary" under the Newsweek banner which proposes and praises far more surveillance of Americans, is buried this little gem.

Yet today, very quietly, the core of TIA survives with a new codename of Topsail (minus the futures market), two officials privy to the intelligence tell NEWSWEEK. It is in programs like these that real data mining is going on and—considering the furor over TIA—with fewer intrusions on civil liberties than occur under the NSA surveillance program.

This is about the only thing worthwhile in the whole piece, but that's new information to me.